TOXOGLOSSA


Meaning of TOXOGLOSSA in English

ˌtäksəˈgläsə noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from tox- (II) + -glossa; from the usually strongly barbed and arrowlike radula

: a group of marine carnivorous gastropods (suborder Stenoglossa) including the families Conidae and Terebridae and having the teeth of the radula reduced in number, large, and often perforated to serve as poison fangs with which a large poison gland in the esophagus communicates by slender ducts

• tox·o·glos·sate | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷|gläˌsāt adjective or noun

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